... MR. BURNAND'S Whittington and His Cat, at the GAIETY Theatre, is one of those light and lively pieces which call for little in the way of critical examination, and yet afford much amusement to playgoe ...

... CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERTS.-- The twenty-sixth series of Saturday Concerts begins this afternoon, under the superintendence of Mr. August Manns, who from the commencement has done so much to promote th ...

... pP|j ^the fS!? THE ROYALTY Theatre in Soho has come under the management of Mr. Alexander Henderson, a gentleman of large experience in theatrical matters, acquired both in England and America; and th ...

... SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.-- The new series of concerts about to be given in St. James's Hall, the first of which is announced for Friday, November 11th, will represent the jubilee of a society of amate ...

... THE HAYMARKET Theatre reopened on Wednesday evening with a new historical play written by a gentleman who possesses the old historical name of Walter Raleigh. Additional interest was imparted to the o ...

... . MR. AUGUSTUS HARRIS, in his bold advertisements of the latest Drury Lane success, informs Parents and Guardians that it was the habit of apprentices in the City of London in the olden time to allow themselves to be taken by their masters once a year to see the performance of George Barnewell at the Drury Lane Theatre in order to warn them of the snares and tempta tions of this great ...

... IIAYMARKET THEATRE. IT is to be feared that no success can be chronicled for the new piece with which on Wednesday last Mrs. Scott-Siddons began her venture at the Haymarket. Historical pieces dealing with subjects so hackneyed as Anne Boleyn's marriage, disgrace, and death, are generally rather heavy affairs. For their justifi cation on the stage they need high literary merit, plenty of ...

... . HUTCHINGS AND ROMER, 9, Conduit-street, W-- Loyal Responses, 5s., is an interesting volume, containing forty poems of a religious character, written by the late Miss Frances Ridley Havergal, and set to music composed by herself. The first thirty-one songs are intended to be used successively on every day in each month; the remainder are suitable for occasional use. The verses breathe the ...

... . (from our own correspondent.) THE Norwich Triennial Festival is one of the most im portant of those provincial musical celebrations which are periodically held on behalf of local charities. The origin of these meetings dates back more than a hundred years, from the year 1779 sermons having been annually delivered in the cathedral in assize week, and musical performances established-- ...

... MESSRS. J. MCDOWELL AND CO.-- Three pianoforte pieces, by G. Bachmann, arranged both as solos and duets, will prove useful and sufficiently brilliant for after-dinner performance. Chanson Louis XVI. ...

... A MORE sombre and painful play than Honour, produced at the COURT THEATRE on Saturday evening, on the reopening of that theatre under the direction of Mr. John Clayton, it would not be easy to name. I ...

... SADLER'S AYELLS. The Foundlings, the picturesque drama with which Mr. Chat- terton leads off his career at Sadler's AYells, proves to be a further adaptation of La Darnede la Halle, an old French piece of which in 1S52 acouple of versions were running simultaneously at the Lyceum and the Adelplii. The basis of the plot of the piece, which is written by Mr. Leopold Lewis, is a mistake in the ...